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    Is the Flow of Time Subjective?
    Review of Metaphysics 39 (4). 1986.
    LET ME BEGIN this inquiry with the simple but fundamental fact that the flow of time, or passage, as it is also known, is given in experience, that it is as indubitable an aspect of our perception of the world as the sights and sounds that come in upon us, even though it is not the peculiar property of a special sense. Consider, by way of illustration, that I am now sitting at the desk in my study. This particular event was not present at any earlier time, nor will it be present shortly as I bec…Read more